Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System

The user trials of indigenously built Advanced Towed Artillery Gun system (ATAGS) is to be resumed by December 2020. The trials of ATAGS were paused in September 2020 as the gun suffered a barrel burst. After the barrel burst, a committee was set up with Indian Army representatives, DRDO scientists and Ordnance Factory Board officials ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: Defence Current Affairs

Topics: Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems • Artillery • Artillery Guns • atags • Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan • Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) • DRDO • India-Israel

55th Raising Day of Border Security Force(BSF)

The Border Security Force (BSF) is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces of India, was formed on 1st December 1965 and, is termed as the First Line of Defence of Indian Territories. With the Motto ‘Duty Unto Death’, BSF is the world’s largest border guarding force with a strength of over 2.57 lakh ..

Category: Defence Current Affairs

Topics: Artillery • battalions • Border Security Force • BSF • Central Armed Police Forces • duty unto death • first line of defence • home affairs • Nityanand Rai • Raising day

Indian Army conducts rare exercise Chang Thang Prahar in Eastern Laddakh

The Indian Army conducted a massive rare exercise named ‘Chang Thang Prahar’ at a high altitude area in Eastern Laddakh  bordering China for testing and improving its war-fighting capabilities. The integrated exercise involved the use of infantry, mechanized forces, T-72 tanks, with force multipliers such as artillery guns and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). 

Topics: Armoured warfare • Artillery • Avionics • Electronics • Indian Army • Mechanized • Robotics • Tank • Technology • Unmanned aerial vehicle • Wireless

Indian Army conducts ‘Exercise Topchi 2019’

Indian Army has recently demonstrated its artillery firepower by using ultra light Howitzers and indigenous Swathi weapon-locating radar at the annual ‘Exercise Topchi 2019’ at the vast firing ranges at Deolali Camp near Nasik, Maharashtra. The aviation and surveillance capabilities were also showcased in the Exercise. In addition to the gun fire, the display of ..

Topics: Artillery • Indian Army • radar • Radar configurations and types • Warning systems • Weapon Locating Radar

India’s first private-sector Howitzer gun-manufacturing plant comes up in Surat

On 19th January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the India’first Armoured Systems Complex (ASC) built by a private company – Larsen & Toubro (L&T) – at Hazira in Surat, Gujarat. This is the India’s first private facility where the K9 Vajra self-propelled Howitzer guns will be manufactured. Spread over 40 acres within L&T’s 755-acre Hazira ..

Topics: Artillery • Hazira • K9 • K9 Thunder • Larsen & Toubro • Self-propelled artillery • Self-propelled gun • Weapons